[DCRM-L] edition, state

[Lenore Rouse]

  Hi Larry,

Interesting question. I would opine that the answer to #1 should be yes 
even if it IS the same setting of type, or at least I would certainly 
want different records to record different formats. The printer may not 
be changing individual type pages but he is bound to have to change the 
imposition of those pages. As to #2 I'm not sure how relentless the 
de-dupe juggernaut is, but one would hope that there will be sufficient 
difference between the size, pagination, etc. of the books to preserve 
your new record. Including the format and collation should help.

However it occurs to me this may all be moot as I dimly remember reading 
that auto de-duping or merging of records is not being used for pre-1800 
material? Look forward to more discussion on this.
Lenore


On 2/7/2011 11:26 AM, Laurence Creider wrote:
> I am cataloging The miscellaneous works of Tobias Smollett, M.D.  
> London : Printed for J. Mundell & Co., Edinburgh, and for J. Mundell, 
> College, Glasgow, 1796.  I have 5 of the six volumes.  The copies I 
> have found in WorldCat give the format as 8vo with a note: The same 
> setting of type was also printed using a 12 imposition.  Our copy is 
> in 12mo, with horizontal signatures.
>
> Two different but not un-related issues.
>
> 1) Does using the same setting of type with a different imposition 
> count as a separate edition?
>
> 2) Should I input a separate record into OCLC for the 12mo version? If 
> so, how would I qualify it to avoid the dreaded OCLC de-duplication 
> algorithm?
>

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